Launching the Data Curation Network Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant will fund implementation of shared staffing model across 7 academic libraries and the Dryad Digital Repository MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN (04/06/2018) – The University of Minnesota Libraries will lead a three-year, multi-institutional effort to launch the Data Curation Network. The implementation — backed by a $526,438…
The DCN Team is excited to announce that that the result of our planning phase, the model for launching a Data Curation Network, is now posted to our website for comment! We’d greatly appreciate your feedback on this proposed new service. Download and read the report (PDF) Summary: With support from the Sloan Foundation, our team…
The Data Curation Network project team released two new reports this week. The first shares the results of six focus group sessions with researchers on their perceptions, use, and barriers of data curation activities. In total we engaged 91 researchers from across our institutions U. of Minnesota, Cornell, Penn State, U of Illinois, U of…
Heidi Imker (U. Illinois) and I are at the IDCC conference in Edinburgh this week and presenting some results on the Data Curation Network! To recap, the Data Curation Network project aims to enable academic institutions to scale their data curation services by sharing staff with file format and domain specific skills so that data…
Community is fundamental to the Data Curation Network (DCN). We are librarians, curators, and archivists who strongly believe that as a community we can leverage our distributed curation or domain expertise to enhance and curate the research data being created at our institutions. To achieve a shared staffing model for the curation of datasets, the…
Introducing the Data Curation Network project Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant will fund development of shared model across 6 academic libraries In an effort to improve researcher support, the University of Minnesota Libraries will lead efforts to develop a network for sharing data curation resources and staff across six major academic libraries. The one-year project…